I’m friendly with a particular paralegal at my firm. She’s a bright, charming girl, and we’ve enjoyed a “convivial rapport” while working together on a couple of projects (translation: we shoot the shit and crack each other up by making fun of various partners). The other day she stopped me in the hallway and asked […]

In a rare burst of self-improvement, I’m making an effort to be less judgmental. Really, I mean it. I realize that the human propensity for passing judgment on every act of our peers is one of our most repulsive communal traits. The only thing foiling my attempts is that I truly believe that I know […]

My indoctrination into the stratums of Manhattan trendster elitism is officially complete, I have now leapt from the precipice of the great unwashed masses into the sparkling transluscent martini-filled pool of New York haut monde, all by completing one unceremonious act - officially attending a party at Soho House. Neither a bar, nor a club, […]

Saturday night I reunited with The Lawyerfriends, which meant an evening of copious vodka tonics and yet another round of “Whose Life Sucks the Worst,” the game where we stand around relating tales about work to determine who wins the trophy for abject misery. This time, there was little contest; one friend was the hands […]

Movies and TV always seem to depict Manhattan as this ample urban expanse packed with millions of nameless faces in suits racing through their daily lives, all viewable from sweeping overhead pan shots. But once you live here, you realize that somehow, the vast metropolitan sprawl really isn’t all that big, and the presence of […]